SMU News Feedhttp://www.smu.edu/Home/News.aspxThis feed contains news and information from SMUhttp://www.smu.edu/Home/News.aspxSMU News Feedhttp://www.smu.edu/Home/News.aspxen-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssgshultz@smu.edu (Gary Shultz)webservices@smu.edu (Aren Cambre)6032.836094-96.795241 "Mystery Booms" cause identifiedhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/smunews/~3/3em-JtMqp24/geology-news10-31july2015.aspx<p>Summary: An SMU scientific team has identified the cause of "mystery booms" in California's Gold Country.</p><p>By George Warren</p>
<p>SONORA - So-called "mystery booms" that have puzzled residents in California's Gold Country appear to be coming from a U.S. military installation over 100 miles away in the Nevada desert.<br />
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The Hawthorne Army Depot routinely destroys obsolete munitions on weekdays between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m -- the period of time when many of the nearly 2,300 members of the Facebook group "Mother Lode Mystery Booms" have reported hearing the blasts.<br />
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Glen White, a science instructor at Columbia College outside Sonora, said the sound coming from Hawthorne appears to carry especially well in the summer months.<br />
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"I can't explain all the physics involved, but the atmosphere is bouncing in response to the energy and it's reflecting and bouncing (the sound) back down," White said. "The really odd part is people fairly close to the source of the energy, the explosions, aren't hearing it. The sound goes over them."<br />
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White began researching the source of the mystery booms last summer at about the same time as, coincidentally, a team of scientists from Southern Methodist University were granted permission to place a monitoring station at Columbia College as part of a larger project to detect nuclear explosions.<br />
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White said the SMU team wanted to calibrate four sensor stations, including the one at the college, using the known source of daily explosions in Hawthorne.<br />
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The blasts heard in the Mother Lode were charted by the sensors and timing and triangulation identified Hawthorne as the source, White said.<br />
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&ldquo;The main cause of our troubles is monopoly capitalism, which is a system dominated by giant companies that charge high prices, pay low wages and extract huge productivity from employees,&rdquo; says Batra, an economics professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. &ldquo;As a result, supply rises faster than demand and generates layoffs. So the solution lies in breaking up the behemoths and returning to free markets, where many firms engage in price and quality competition.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/smunews/~4/wrJCgOIrW6k" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Fri, 31 Jul 2015 14:17:00 GMThttp://www.smu.edu/News/2015/ravi-batra-businessnh-31july2015.aspxhttp://www.smu.edu/News/2015/ravi-batra-businessnh-31july2015.aspxTrump and Perry on the attackhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/smunews/~3/MY9Du5asZYo/matthew-wilson-startele-31july2015.aspx<p>Summary: SMU Political Science Prof. Matthew Wilson talks about former Texas Gov. Rick Perry's verbal attack on fellow presidential candidate Donald Trumph.</p><p>By Bud Kennedy</p>
<p>Donald Trump has achieved the impossible.</p>
<p>He made reporters call Rick Perry <em>smart</em>.</p>
<p>Until a few weeks ago, that would have seemed as unlikely as a 10-foot alligator swimming under the North Main Street bridge.</p>
<p>Now that a monster surfaced, Perry is looked to as the 2016 Republican field&rsquo;s wise old trapper.</p>
<p>That was no fake headline Thursday in <em>The Washington Post</em>: &ldquo;Rick Perry just savaged Donald Trump. That&rsquo;s smart.&rdquo;</p>
<p>While other candidates ignore Trump or play up to his voters, Perry criticized the celebrity billionaire Thursday as offering &ldquo;not conservatism &mdash; Trump-ism &mdash; a toxic mix of demagoguery and nonsense.&rdquo; . . .</p>
<p>But Southern Methodist University associate professor <strong>Matthew Wilson</strong>, a watcher of conservative voters, advised Perry and other candidates to stay safely away from danger.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Trump has no chance,&rdquo; Wilson wrote. &ldquo;He does nothing but damage &hellip; taking time and media attention away from serious candidates and gratuitously alienating Latino voters.&rdquo;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/bud-kennedy/article27460366.html" target="_blank">Read the full story</a>.</p>
<p># # #</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/smunews/~4/MY9Du5asZYo" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Fri, 31 Jul 2015 14:05:00 GMThttp://www.smu.edu/News/2015/matthew-wilson-startele-31july2015.aspxhttp://www.smu.edu/News/2015/matthew-wilson-startele-31july2015.aspxFBI mined secrets from George McGovern's pasthttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/smunews/~3/A95sJbEO5SI/thomas-knock-usatoday-31july2015.aspx<p>Summary: SMU History Professor Thomas Knock talks about FBI files on former presidential candidate George McGovern.</p><p>By&nbsp;Jonathan Ellis</p>
<p>On April 16, 1975, two FBI inspectors met with Sen. <culink class="culinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/George McGovern" culang="en">George McGovern</culink> in Washington.</p>
<p>A month earlier, McGovern had written a letter to FBI Director <culink class="culinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Clarence M. Kelley" culang="en">Clarence Kelley</culink> asking for a copy of any file that the FBI kept on him. In fact, unbeknownst to McGovern, the FBI had accumulated a large file on the senator and 1972 Democratic presidential nominee, but FBI officials were reluctant to share the information. The two FBI inspectors met with McGovern to negotiate a compromise.</p>
<p>McGovern, according to an FBI account of the meeting, was agreeable to a compromise. There was a chance, he told the inspectors, that he might be on the national ticket in the next presidential race in 1976. He related his own disastrous experience with his first vice-presidential candidate in 1972, and he wanted to be able to tell any potential running mate if the FBI possessed derogatory information about him.</p>
<p>Specifically, he wanted to know if the FBI had information about a child he fathered as a young man. . .</p>
<p><strong>Thomas Knock</strong>, a history professor at Southern Methodist University, has written a biography of McGovern that will be published in early 2016 by Princeton Universtiy Press titled "The Life and Times of George McGovern," which includes details about the incident. Longtime McGovern admirers might be "taken aback" by the fact that McGovern fathered a child when he was a young man.</p>
<p>"It's one incident in the life of a long career of a great statesman," Knock said. "It's very interesting as biography, but not significant historically."</p>
<p><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/07/26/fbi-mined-secrets-mcgoverns-past/30689729/" target="_blank">Read the full story</a>.</p>
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</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/smunews/~4/A95sJbEO5SI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Fri, 31 Jul 2015 13:41:00 GMThttp://www.smu.edu/News/2015/thomas-knock-usatoday-31july2015.aspxhttp://www.smu.edu/News/2015/thomas-knock-usatoday-31july2015.aspxKeeping History Alivehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/smunews/~3/oGVgmXPjPrc/meadows-little-mexico-project-31july2015.aspx<p>Summary: SMU art student Nicolas Gonzalez is helping a new generation learn the rich history of the city's Little Mexico and Pike Park.</p><p>By Stella M. Ch&aacute;vez</p>
<p>At the Pike Park summer camp in Dallas, kids do the usual summer camp stuff -- play games, dance, draw and eat. What makes this camp different? The kids are also learning about where they're going to camp -- the once-thriving uptown neighborhood known as Little Mexico.</p>
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<p>It&rsquo;s the last week of summer camp, and the kids here show no signs of slowing down. On this morning, the music has been blaring as they strut their stuff. Then, they launch into making their own beats. And rapping about the park where the camp is located.</p>
<p>The kids in the camp range from 5 to 12 years old, and a few of them live in the apartments next door, just off Harry Hines Boulevard. The area is now part of Uptown and it&rsquo;s where thousands of Mexicans settled in the early 20th century.</p>
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<p>Nicolas Gonzalez, an art student at SMU, is working on a mural of Little Mexico with help from the camp kids.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Basically, I told them about this mural piece,"</p>
<p>Gonzalez had the kids slap their paint-covered hands on the canvas leaving hand prints all over. He took a blown-up map of what used to be Little Mexico and Pike Park and replicated the outline of it on the mural. He added landmarks like the gazebo, which sits next to the park. It&rsquo;s still a work in progress.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Right now if you look at it, it&rsquo;s very colorful and basic line works and there&rsquo;s a lot of movement to it," Gonzalez said. "But that&rsquo;s what I&rsquo;m trying to capture, more of a child&rsquo;s innocence to it.&rdquo;</p>
<p>He also he didn&rsquo;t want the mural to contain faces or writing -- he wants it to remain somewhat mysterious.</p>
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Janis Bergman-Carton, associate professor of art history at Southern Methodist University, has been involved in shaping the summer camp and mentoring Gonzalez on the mural.</p>
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&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve used a lot of visuals, a lot of historical photographs, historical maps and most exciting for the kids, not surprisingly, were a series of conversations we were able to organize with elders of the Mexican-American community, who grew up in Little Mexico and who grew up playing in Pike Park,&rdquo; she said.</p>
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<p>Bergman-Carton became interested in Little Mexico when she met members of the Dallas Mexican-American Historical League in 2010. Since then, she's worked with members on various exhibits and research projects.</p>
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The idea for the mural and camp came up last fall during a Pike Park exhibit called Little Jerusalem to Little Mexico, 100 Years of Settlement. Bergman-Carton said Dallas parks and recreation director Willis Winters said the camp would be a step toward restoring and preserving the area.</p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/smunews/~4/oGVgmXPjPrc" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Fri, 31 Jul 2015 12:01:00 GMThttp://www.smu.edu/News/2015/meadows-little-mexico-project-31july2015.aspxhttp://www.smu.edu/News/2015/meadows-little-mexico-project-31july2015.aspxDean DiPiero on 'Go Set a Watchman'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/smunews/~3/mbpI1v2QOmA/thomas-dipiero-kera-30july2015.aspx<p>Summary: On July 29, 2015, KERA public radio's Think interviewed Thomas DiPiero of SMU about the recently released "Go Set a Watchman" by Harper Lee, author of "To Kill A Mockingbird." </p><p><img alt="Tom DiPiero" src="/~/media/Images/News/2015/summer/tom-dipiero-at-kera-29july2015.ashx?h=185&amp;la=en&amp;w=250" style="width: 250px; height: 185px; float: left; margin: 3px 6px 3px 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;" />On July 29, 2015, KERA public radio's <em>Think</em> interviewed Thomas DiPiero of SMU about the recently released <em>Go Set a Watchman</em>&nbsp;by Harper Lee, author of <em>To Kill A Mockingbird</em>.&nbsp;</p>
<p>DiPiero&nbsp;is dean of SMU's Dedman College and an English professor who is an expert on Harper Lee&rsquo;s work.</p>
<p><a href="/~/media/Images/News/Audio/Thomas-DiPiero-on-kera-29july2015.ashx?la=en">Listen to the KERA <em>Think</em> interview.&nbsp;<img alt="audio icon" src="/~/media/Images/News/icons/audio.ashx?la=en&amp;h=10&amp;w=10" style="height: 10px; width: 10px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;" /></a></p>
<p>DiPiero <a href="/News/2015/thomas-dipiero-nypost-13july2015.aspx">had reviewed</a> <em>Go Set a Watchman</em> for <em>The New York Post </em>and was <a href="/~/media/Images/News/Audio/Thomas-DiPiero-BBCradio-03feb2015.ashx?la=en">interviewed by BBC Radio</a>.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/smunews/~4/mbpI1v2QOmA" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 30 Jul 2015 16:40:00 GMThttp://www.smu.edu/News/2015/thomas-dipiero-kera-30july2015.aspxhttp://www.smu.edu/News/2015/thomas-dipiero-kera-30july2015.aspxProf. Greenspan’s book a finalist for Frederick Douglass Prizehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/smunews/~3/Cut2dcBILYU/ezra-greenspan-finalist-30july2015.aspx<p>Summary: SMU English Professor Ezra Greenspan’s acclaimed biography William Wells Brown: An African American Life (W.W. Norton) is a finalist for the prestigious Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most coveted awards for the study of the African-American experience.</p><p>DALLAS (SMU) &mdash;SMU English Professor Ezra Greenspan&rsquo;s acclaimed biography <em>William Wells Brown: An African American Life</em> (W.W. Norton) is a finalist for the prestigious Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most coveted awards for the study of the African-American experience.</p>
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<p>Literary and cultural historian Greenspan, the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Chair in the Humanities at SMU, is one of three highly respected authors nominated as finalists for the prize from a field of nearly 90 entries by a jury of scholars.</p>
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<p>The Frederick Douglass Book Prize winner will be selected by the Douglass Prize Review Committee in the fall. The award from Yale University&rsquo;s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition will be presented at a celebration in New York City in February, 2016. The center recognizes each year&rsquo;s best book on slavery, resistance and/or abolition</p>
<p>The award is named for Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), who rose to great prominence as an orator, writer, reformer and abolitionist during the same era as fellow escaped slave William Wells Brown (1814-1884).</p>
<p>Greenspan&rsquo;s well-researched and richly written biography about the man he calls <a href="http://www.smu.edu/News/2014/ezra-greenspan-books-13nov2014">&ldquo;the most rivetingly inventive, entertaining black writer of his era&rdquo;</a> sheds light on Brown, who was a prolific writer and charismatic orator. The book is described in Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalist materials as, &ldquo;A detective work of sorts.&rdquo;</p>
<p>After escaping slavery, Brown would, against all odds, become the first African American to write a novel, a printed play, a travelogue as a fugitive slave living in Europe and three volumes of black history that included the first book about African American soldiers&rsquo; experiences during the Civil War. A powerful public speaker who engaged audiences across the United States, Canada and the British Isles over a 40-year career, he was one of the foremost antislavery and civil rights activists of the 19th century.</p>
<p>Though the work of the dynamic author-abolitionist nearly faded into obscurity in the Jim Crow era after Reconstruction, Greenspan&rsquo;s <em>William Wells Brown</em> presents what Harvard Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. calls an enthralling &ldquo;experimental voyage&rdquo; illuminating the 19th century dynamo&rsquo;s &ldquo;improvisational genius&rdquo; while ensuring that Brown&rsquo;s &ldquo;rightful place in the constellation of leading black men and women of letters will remain fixed for future generations.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Greenspan&rsquo;s biography joins the other 2014 book he compiled to celebrate Brown&rsquo;s bicentennial: the 1,042-page anthology <a href="http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=399"><em>William Wells Brown: Clotel &amp; Other Writings</em></a> (Library of America), the most comprehensive collection of Brown&rsquo;s work ever published.</p>
<p>For more on both Greenspan works about Brown, which have garnered extensive media coverage (and glowing reviews by <em>The New York Times</em>, <em>The New Yorker</em> and <em>The Washington Post</em>), see <a href="http://www.smu.edu/News/2014/ezra-greenspan-books-13nov2014">http://www.smu.edu/News/2014/ezra-greenspan-books-13nov2014</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: right;">21292-nr-__/__/15-kr</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/smunews/~4/Cut2dcBILYU" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 30 Jul 2015 16:10:00 GMThttp://www.smu.edu/News/2015/ezra-greenspan-finalist-30july2015.aspxhttp://www.smu.edu/News/2015/ezra-greenspan-finalist-30july2015.aspxWhat The Future Holdshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/smunews/~3/xYDmVvWvuKA/meadows-art-history-degree-30july2015.aspx<p>Summary: Art history grads find success and adventure in some likely &mdash; and not-so-likely &mdash; places.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/smunews/~4/xYDmVvWvuKA" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 30 Jul 2015 15:12:00 GMThttp://www.smu.edu/News/2015/meadows-art-history-degree-30july2015.aspxhttp://www.smu.edu/News/2015/meadows-art-history-degree-30july2015.aspxExhibit's Final Dayshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/smunews/~3/R9IKJuBpKFA/meadows-museum-abello-exhibit-30july2015.aspx<p>Summary: <i>The Abelló Collection</i> at the Meadows Museum, featuring 500 years of art, ends soon.</p><p>The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University is featuring the first exhibition in the United States of paintings from the collection of Juan Abell&oacute;, who is considered one of the world&rsquo;s top collectors.</p>
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<p><em>The Abell&oacute; Collection: A Modern Taste for European Masters&nbsp;</em>includes approximately 70 paintings spanning the 16th to the 21st centuries &mdash; displaying works by such Spanish masters as El Greco, Jusepe de Ribera, Francisco Goya, Salvador Dal&iacute;, and Pablo Picasso, as well as by other European artists including Georges Braque, Canaletto, Edgar Degas, Fernand L&eacute;ger, Henri Matisse and Amedeo Modigliani, among others.</p>
<p>Francis Bacon&rsquo;s <em>Triptych 1983</em>, one of the artist&rsquo;s final works in this iconic format, is among the works on display. Also included are an ensemble of 15 drawings by Pablo Picasso, representing all periods in his long career.</p>
<p><em>The Abell&oacute; Collection: A Modern Taste for European</em><em> </em><em>Masters, </em>joins the Meadows&rsquo; ongoing series of international partnerships that are bringing Spanish masterworks to the U.S. The exhibition is a cornerstone to the Museum&rsquo;s 50th anniversary celebration, which continues throughout 2015.</p>
<p>Based in Madrid, Juan Abell&oacute; is one of Spain&rsquo;s most prominent art collectors &mdash; and has been internationally recognized as one of the top 200 collectors in the world since he began collecting art over three decades ago. Along with his wife Anna Gamazo, Abell&oacute; has amassed more than 500 outstanding works of art spanning 500 years of European history.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The Abell&oacute; Collection is grounded in the couple&rsquo;s dedication to bringing great national works of art back to Spain that have been dispersed over time in the turmoil resulting from centuries of political and economic strife &mdash; from the Napoleonic invasion, to numerous historical financial crises. Abell&oacute;&rsquo;s collecting bears a parallel to that of Meadows Museum founder and SMU benefactor Algur H. Meadows, who similarly devoted his fortune to the collection, study, and presentation of Spanish masterworks, and to strengthening international awareness of Spain&rsquo;s robust cultural tradition.</p>
<p>&ldquo;The Meadows Museum is incredibly grateful for the generosity of Juan Abell&oacute; and Anna Gamazo, who have so graciously agreed to lend these extraordinary masterpieces from their collection for an international debut in Dallas,&rdquo; said Mark A. Rogl&aacute;n, The Linda P. and William A. Custard Director of the Meadows Museum and Centennial Chair in the Meadows School of the Arts. &ldquo;We are honored to have the opportunity to present for the first time in the United States paintings from this outstanding collection, which showcases Spain&rsquo;s powerful artistic legacy, and perfectly coincides with our institution&rsquo;s founding mission and role as a leader in the research and presentation of Spanish art.&rdquo;</p>
<h3>Exhibition Highlights</h3>
<p><em>The Abell&oacute; Collection: A Modern Taste for European Masters </em>has been curated by Almudena Ros de Barbero, curator of the Abell&oacute; Collection, who served previously at the Musee du Louvre working on the opening of the new Spanish picture galleries, and later was a researcher at the Wildenstein Institute in Paris. Some of the paintings that will be featured in the exhibition are presently on display in Madrid as part of a larger series of exhibitions mounted by the city, &ldquo;Patronage in the Service of&nbsp; Art.&rdquo; &nbsp;In conjunction with the exhibition, the Meadows produced a fully illustrated, English-language catalogue published by Ediciones El Viso.</p>
<p>Highlights of the Meadows Museum exhibition include:</p>
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<li><strong><em>Baptism of Christ </em></strong><strong>by Juan de Flandes </strong>(c. 1496-99), the central panel in an altarpiece (now dispersed) devoted to St. John the Baptist that was originally located at the Carthusian Monastery of Miraflores in Burgos, Spain. With the precise technique typical of members of the Flemish school, Flandes created a work of vibrant luminosity, depicting a unique moment during which all three persons of the Holy Trinity were manifest.<br />
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<li><strong><em>The Stigmatization of Saint Francis </em></strong><strong>by El Greco </strong>(c. 1580), the first version of several variations of the artist&rsquo;s renderings of this subject, including a later depiction entitled <em>Saint &nbsp;Francis</em><em> </em><em>Kneeling in Meditation </em>(1605-1610) housed in the Meadows&rsquo; permanent collection. Created shortly after El Greco arrived in Toledo, the work from the Abell&oacute; collection will provide visitors an opportunity to compare the iconographical and stylistic differences between the two works, and observe the evolution of El Greco&rsquo;s artistic practice.<br />
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<li><strong><em>The Sense of Smell </em></strong><strong>by Jusepe de Ribera </strong>(c. 1615), part of the <em>Five Senses </em>series the artist created for Giulio Mancini, a prominent art writer, collector, and dealer who served as physician to Pope Urban VIII. A follower of Caravaggio, Ribera spent the majority of his working life in Italy, where he was known as &ldquo;Lo Spagnoletto&rdquo; or the &ldquo;Little Spaniard.&rdquo; This piece is a rare example of the artist&rsquo;s early Roman period prior to his departure for Naples in 1616, where he would settle for the remainder of his career.<br />
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<li><strong>A pair of portraits by Francisco Goya </strong>depicting his son Javier&rsquo;s father-in-law, Martin Miguel de Goicoechea, and Martin&rsquo;s wife, Juana Galarza de Goicoechea (both 1810). The pair particularly resonates with the Meadows&rsquo; collection, which features portraits of the couple&rsquo;s daughter, Gumersinda, and the artist&rsquo;s son. Javier and Gumersinda gave Goya his only grandson, Mariano, whose portrait was acquired by the Museum in 2013. Together, these works will offer a comprehensive picture of the artist and his legacy.<br />
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Giovanni Antonio Canal, called &ldquo;Canaletto&rdquo; (Italian, 1697-1768), <em>The Pier of Venice Next to St. Mark&rsquo;s Square,</em> c. 1729. Oil on canvas. P678 &ndash; 11/2002, Archive Abell&oacute; Collection (Joaqu&iacute;n Cort&eacute;s)</td>
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<li><strong> Two <em>vedute </em>(views) by Giovanni Antonio Canal &ldquo;Canaletto,&rdquo; </strong>with views from the Grand Canal of Venice dated c. 1720, the period when Canaletto was at the height of his powers. These paintings depict several emblematic buildings of Venice, including the Piazza San Marcos, Palazzo Ducale, Biblioteca Marcina, and the Palazzo Corner della Ca&rsquo; Granda or Palazzo Barbarigo.<br />
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<li><strong><em>The Cellist </em></strong><strong>by Amedeo Modigliani </strong>(1909), with a portrait of Constantin Brancusi, the artist&rsquo;s close friend and neighbor on the reverse. Brancusi quickly became a crucial influence in Modigliani&rsquo;s life and work, encouraging the artist to investigate Cycladic sculpture. Modigliani&rsquo;s fascination with this ancient Aegean culture resulted in a particularly productive period of his career between 1909 and 1915, in which he produced a number of sculptures with monumental and simplified forms. The double-sided painting will be displayed alongside two preparatory drawings for <em>The Cellist </em>and <em>The Brancusi Portrait</em>.<br />
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<li><strong><em>Rum and Guitar </em></strong><strong>by Georges Braque </strong>(1918), one of the artist&rsquo;s Cubist pictures painted in the aftermath of World War I, during which he was severely injured. Prior to the war&rsquo;s outbreak in 1914, Braque and Picasso jointly established Analytic and Synthetic Cubism and collage, signaling a particularly innovative period of the movement that lead to Braque&rsquo;s first solo exhibition in Paris in 1908. This piece reflects the reemergence of Cubism after the War, when it began to coalesce as a defined artistic movement.<br />
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<li><strong><em>Nu assis (Seated Nude) </em></strong><strong>by Pablo Picasso </strong>(c. 1922-23), a nearly monochromatic work executed by Picasso during a period when he returned to classicism&mdash;in this instance, referencing the iconography of Venus before the mirror. The linear strokes of charcoal outlining the figure and the thick application of white paint on bare canvas give the work volume and confer an almost sculptural quality.<br />
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<li><strong><em>Triptych 1983 </em></strong><strong>by Francis Bacon </strong>(1983), one of Bacon&rsquo;s final works in this iconic format, which references both the popular Renaissance composition and the modern inventions of photography and cinema. The Abell&oacute; Collection houses an extensive repertoire of Bacon&rsquo;s work, and Juan Abell&oacute; is the only Spanish collector who owns multiple pieces by the artist. <em>Triptych 1983 </em>serves as a capstone to the Meadows exhibition and the Abell&oacute; collection as a whole.</li>
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<p><em>&ldquo;The Abell&oacute; Collection: A Modern Taste for European Masters </em>represents an exciting&nbsp; moment for cultural scholars and museum audiences worldwide,&rdquo; said Almudena Ros de Barbero, curator of the Juan Abell&oacute; Collection. &ldquo;Making accessible these works of art&mdash;some of the finest and rarest in existence today&mdash;to an international audience will foster a broader forum for research, scholarship, and discourse in the field of art history and beyond, and will not only strengthen our knowledge of these artists and their legacies, but also of Spain&rsquo;s remarkable contributions to our shared cultural experience.&rdquo;</p>
<p>In 2008, the Meadows presented the exhibition <em>From Manet to Mir&oacute;: Modern Drawings from the Abell&oacute;</em><em> </em><em>Collection</em>, which marked the first time any Abell&oacute; works had traveled outside of Spain, and featured never-before-seen modern and contemporary drawings by &Eacute;douard Manet, Joan Mir&oacute;, Juan Gris, and Edgar Degas, among other artists. <em>The Abell&oacute; Collection: A Modern Taste for European Masters </em>builds on that unprecedented exhibition as the inaugural showcase of Abell&oacute; paintings in the United States.</p>
<p>Please note that <em>Treasures from the House of Alba: 500 Years of Art and Collecting</em>, which &nbsp;was previously slated to take place April 18 through Aug. 16, 2015, will now be presented from Sept. 4, 2015 through Jan. 3, 2016. <em>Treasures from the House of Alba </em>is the first major exhibition in the U.S. of works from one the most significant and comprehensive private collections of European art in the world.</p>
<p>&ldquo;In order to accommodate both of these extraordinary exhibitions, we decided to move <em>Treasures from</em><em> </em><em>the House of Alba: 500 Years of Art and Collecting </em>to a later date,&rdquo; Rogl&aacute;n said. &ldquo;Both of these landmark exhibitions are essential components of the Museum&rsquo;s 50th-anniversary celebration. Presenting <em>The Abell&oacute;</em></p>
<h3>Support</h3>
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<p>This exhibition was organized by the Meadows Museum and the Abell&oacute; Collection and has been brought to Dallas by a generous gift from The Meadows Foundation.</p>
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<h3>About the Meadows Museum</h3>
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<p><a href="http://www.meadowsmuseumdallas.org/50th_anniversary.htm"><img alt="Meadows Museum at 50 Logo" src="/~/media/Images/News/icons/Meadows-Museum-at-50-logo.ashx?h=170&amp;la=en&amp;w=250" style="width: 250px; height: 170px; float: right; margin: 3px 0px 3px 6px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;" /></a>The Meadows Museum is the leading U.S. institution focused on the study and presentation of the art of Spain. In 1962, Dallas businessman and philanthropist Algur H. Meadows donated his private collection of Spanish paintings, as well as funds to start a museum, to Southern Methodist University. The Museum opened to the public in 1965, marking the first step in fulfilling Meadows&rsquo; vision to create a &ldquo;Prado on</p>
<p>the Prairie.&rdquo; Today, the Meadows is home to one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Spanish art outside of Spain. The collection spans from the 10th to the 21st century and includes medieval objects, Renaissance and Baroque sculptures, and major paintings by Golden Age and modern masters.</p>
<p>Since 2010 the Museum has been engaged in a multidimensional partnership with the Prado, which has included the exchange of scholarship, exhibitions, works of art, and other resources.</p>
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<h3>About the Abell&oacute; Collection</h3>
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<p>The Abell&oacute; collection is defined by its owners&rsquo; passion for art and history, and they have played an important role in the repatriation of Spanish works of cultural significance. The collection is also a pioneer in taking an interest in the works of artists with little presence in Spain, such as Francis Bacon and other key painters of the avant-garde. The precursory nature of this collection is another of its defining characteristics, and is seen in the predilection for works on paper which, until very recently, were considered of lesser importance in Spain.</p>
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